CNAME Record

Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have in the hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux cloud website hosting through our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. This way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.